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Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
if I do fill it in it will be extremely grudgingly.

& yeah, we will go down as a Jedi family again too - and this time that will just be the start of it!   (shame there aren't more empty boxes by the "other" tick boxes!)
Ditty, I don't think you have to actually fill it in anthat day and that day only, just fill it in with the status of everyone and everything on THAT day,

Hmm....I think that reply was supposed to be for Baz!
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
Last edited by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
Originally Posted by Demantoid:
Not had the form yet, but will fill it in. The last ones in 2000 caused a major row in Wales.
Under the nationality/ethnicity section, you could say you were English, Scottish, Irish and a whole raft of other categories - but NOT Welsh.
They said it was a "mistake" that they've put right this time.
I watched a Live at the Apollo on I player earlier. It was the one with Rhod Gilbert and John Bishop. Rhod Gilbert was so funny, he had a bit of a rant on behalf of Wales! 

I read your post but heard Rhod Gilberts voice there Demantoid
FM
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
We were Jedi last time. Seemed funny but mebbees it's best to put no religion. They may build Jedi faith schools by accident.

hey joe,
i read the other day, not to put jedi (which i was going to do..) cos the gov allows so much money for each faith and the money goes to waste if you put jedi..dunno if thats true, so dont shoot the messenger lol
pirate1111
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
We were Jedi last time. Seemed funny but mebbees it's best to put no religion. They may build Jedi faith schools by accident.

hey joe,
i read the other day, not to put jedi (which i was going to do..) cos the gov allows so much money for each faith and the money goes to waste if you put jedi..dunno if thats true, so dont shoot the messenger lol
sorry, I know this wasn't to me..    I just gotta butt in a bit.. 

I BLOODY HOPE NOT!  (government funds faith)


ah.. thats better

as you were!  
Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
I don't think yer meant to do it till 27th?
Mine arrived today and it does say that you should complete it on the 27th or as soon as possible afterwards. That's because who have to list everyone staying overnight on the 27th including visitors. There's a section on the form for visitors.
El Loro
Originally Posted by Demantoid:
Not had the form yet, but will fill it in. The last ones in 2000 caused a major row in Wales.
Under the nationality/ethnicity section, you could say you were English, Scottish, Irish and a whole raft of other categories - but NOT Welsh.
They said it was a "mistake" that they've put right this time.
They have got Welsh this time.

And on the English census form question 17 is left blank, but on the Welsh form they have an extra question:

17 Can you understand, speak, read or write Welsh?

Select all that apply

  • Understand spoken Welsh

  • Speak Welsh

  • Read Welsh

  • Write Welsh

  • None of the above

El Loro
Originally Posted by Karma_:
What's the visitors thing all about? The census is designed to take a snapshot of the population of the country, not what you had for dinner or who you managed to drag home for a leg over ffs! HOW nosey!
And the detailed results will eventually go online, so everyone will be able to see who was in the house.
El Loro
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by Karma_:
What's the visitors thing all about? The census is designed to take a snapshot of the population of the country, not what you had for dinner or who you managed to drag home for a leg over ffs! HOW nosey!
And the detailed results will eventually go online, so everyone will be able to see who was in the house.
Well that could lead to a whole load of trouble
Karma_
Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
We were Jedi last time. Seemed funny but mebbees it's best to put no religion. They may build Jedi faith schools by accident.
well considering the shortages of secondary school places now & over the past few years, they didn't build anything on the basis of the last census
Or maybe because people didn't fill them in there are inadequate school places.
Croctacus
Originally Posted by Croctacus:
Originally Posted by Dirtyprettygirlthing:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
We were Jedi last time. Seemed funny but mebbees it's best to put no religion. They may build Jedi faith schools by accident.
well considering the shortages of secondary school places now & over the past few years, they didn't build anything on the basis of the last census
Or maybe because people didn't fill them in there are inadequate school places.
nah, I don't believe that  (I filled my last one in)

 I have been trying to think of a public resource type question that they would be unable to answer without the census taking place..  & I can't think of one.

School places - child benefit records & current primary school records (plus lots of other records) could answer that one.

Hospitals & GPs - I KNOW they don't use the census for that allocation

Roads - DVLA data

Rail - yeah right

I just don't buy it..     For a start, if this information was that important ... if it was the main data that public spending was budgeted on...   do you think they would trust us to fill the forms in ourselves?   It would be more like passport application forms..   one full stop too many and it would get sent back for resubmission.
Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by Demantoid:
Imagine, though, if all of England got their census forms and there was nowhere on it for them to say they were English..
that wouldn't bother me at all. .I consider myself British. .only thing English about me was the fact I was born in the English bit of the British Isles to immigrant parents. . there is no English Blood in my family at all. . I don't have any particular affinity to any of the country's in the list.  but I do feel I am British.. 

may be I should kick up a stink that there isn't a British box for me to tick
Mount Olympus *Olly*
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
may be I should kick up a stink that there isn't a British box for me to tick
Mr Ditty lives for moments where there is no spot on correct racial/nationality box for him to tick!

He loves it he does...    being able to get all outraged on behalf of British born to one British Parent, one Hong Kong parent.


I just ignore him now 
Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by Mount Olympus *Olly*:
I consider myself British. .only thing English about me was the fact I was born in the English bit of the British Isles to immigrant parents. . there is no English Blood in my family at all. . I don't have any particular affinity to any of the country's in the list.  but I do feel I am British.. 

may be I should kick up a stink that there isn't a British box for me to tick
Snap!
Karma_
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by Demantoid:
Not had the form yet, but will fill it in. The last ones in 2000 caused a major row in Wales.
Under the nationality/ethnicity section, you could say you were English, Scottish, Irish and a whole raft of other categories - but NOT Welsh.
They said it was a "mistake" that they've put right this time.
They have got Welsh this time.

And on the English census form question 17 is left blank, but on the Welsh form they have an extra question:

17 Can you understand, speak, read or write Welsh?

Select all that apply

  • Understand spoken Welsh

  • Speak Welsh

  • Read Welsh

  • Write Welsh

  • None of the above

And question 17 in Scotland asks the same, but about Scots.
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing

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